Category: Upcoming and Recent Services

Our Blessing of the Animals service is an annual favorite! Bring your pets and animal friends and we will affirm these important relationships in our lives in this service for all ages! To honor pets who have passed away, you are invited to bring photos and other mementos, to go on our altar. See page 4 for additional details.

Drawing on the work of Dr. James Fowler, late of Atlanta, this sermon on the stages of faith development will address some of the challenges we all find on our faith journeys. Join us for an examination of one framework that can help us as UUs to live into the principle of “Acceptance of one another and encouragement to spiritual growth in our congregations.”

Let it go, let it go, that perfect girl is gone! Sometimes we know that it’s good to step back from leadership roles for our own sake and for the sake of letting other leaders flourish. But that can feel so abstract, and the need for a group email to get sent out so imminent! In those moments, know that no matter how guilty it makes you feel to not step up and over-function, you are doing something healthy for Northwest.

The meaning of Mothers Day as it’s celebrated in the US and elsewhere has evolved over the last three centuries. So, too, has the role and meaning of “Mother.” Rev. Armstrong Davis will be looking at the history behind the movement to establish a Mothers Day celebration in this country as well as the changing roles of women and the men who support them.

Activists and religious liberals have a lot to learn from the Harry Potter books. Hope, courage, and interdependence are all prominent parts of the Harry Potter message. Come explore how these books can help us to shape and sustain a liberatory mindset in our community and in our world.

Earth Day is a reminder that categories of “us” and “them” matter much less than considerations like equity and sustainability. Join us, as together we explore what equitable and sustainable commitments to environmental justice look like today.

A commitment to food justice fundamentally calls us to create a world where everyone has enough to eat. What does it mean spiritually to pledge oneself to this work? How can we bring our food justice efforts into the world in ways that make a difference in our lives and in the lives of others?